More than 100,000 people have fled Rafah in recent days, the United Nations said Friday, with the southern Gaza city under threat of a full-scale Israeli ground invasion

India's Supreme Court today gave Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail till June 1 for campaigning in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections

After a US veto foiled the Palestinians' drive for full UN membership, the General Assembly is expected today to grant them some additional rights in the global body -- a symbolic win that has already irked Israel

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed the reappointment on Friday of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, a technocrat who has helped him through the war in Ukraine and the economic challenges wrought by Western sanctions over Moscow's invasion

The Biden administration added 37 Chinese entities to a trade restriction list on Thursday, including some for allegedly supporting the spy balloon that flew over the United States last year, heightening tensions between Beijing and Washington

Billions of dollars worth of US weaponry remains in the pipeline for Israel, despite the delay of one shipment of bombs and a review of others by President Joe Biden's administration, concerned their use in an assault could wreak more devastation on Palestinian civilians

A federal appeals court panel rejected a bid by US President Joe Biden's son to dismiss criminal gun charges, clearing the way for Hunter Biden's June 3 trial, a first for the child of a sitting president

Israelis are ready to fight with their "fingernails", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday in a thinly veiled rebuff to US President Joe Biden's warning that arms supplies could be withheld over a planned operation in Gaza

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday fired the head of the department responsible for his personal protection after two of its officers were detained this week over an alleged assassination plot

After a US veto foiled the Palestinians' drive for full UN membership, the General Assembly is expected on Friday to grant them some additional rights in the global body -- a symbolic win that has already irked Israel

A man shot and wounded two police officers in Paris after he got hold of one of the officer's weapons while he was being held at a police station, said Paris police chief Laurent Nunez on Friday, confirming earlier media reports

The US is satisfied so far with India's moves to ensure accountability in alleged assassination plots against Sikh activists, but many steps are still needed, the US ambassador to India said on Thursday, calling it a "red line for America" for which there must be consequences

An Israeli air strike on a car in southern Lebanon killed four people yesterday, according to Lebanon’s civil defence, with security sources saying those killed were members of armed group Hezbollah.

Taipei’s defence ministry said yesterday it had detected 23 Chinese warplanes and five navy warships around the island, a day after a US warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday refused to apologise for the May 9 riots and said he is ready to face inquiry into the sit-in that his PTI staged in 2014.

The US aims to destabilise India during the 2024 general election, the Russian foreign ministry has said after a US federal commission’s report criticised New Delhi for alleged violations of religious freedom.

With the Indian Supreme Court set to decide on interim bail for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today to allow him to campaign for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, the Enforcement Directorate has filed an affidavit opposing his petition and said that laws are equal for all and that campaigning is not a fundamental, constitutional or even a legal right.

Displaced Palestinian Marwan al-Masri, sheltering in Rafah, said “Our lives have completely stopped” since Israeli tanks and troops entered the city’s east, sending desperate people fleeing north in the besieged territory.

Russia has agreed to remove some of its troops and border guards from Armenia, the Kremlin said yesterday, after months of spiralling tensions between the two ex-Soviet allies.

Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah yesterday, Palestinian residents said, after US President Joe Biden vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces launch a major invasion of the southern Gaza city.